We’re camping… but we have no tent
No, not some weak homoerotic phrasing there.
I literally mean… we’re meant to be camping, outside, at the mercy of the elements — but… we now lack a tent.
Because we’re in the middle of ‘the worst storm this year’.
We had a tent 24 hours ago. Then, about 12 hours ago, when I went to check on it, there was no tent. There was evidence of where a tent might have once been — some pegs, some shattered rods from its exoskeleton… but not much else.
Obviously, at 4 in the morning, with driving, horizontal sleet-rain it’s fairly hard to get your bearings. So two of us ended up in the car, where I’m told it got very, very cold — and two of us slept inside, under our computer desks.
Sadly there are no photos… because I didn’t take my camera outside into the hurricane-force winds.
I currently look very dishevelled, and in the words of my cousin: ‘like some kind of 1980s sex machine’.
I’m not sure what we’re doing tonight… maybe I can just sneak into someone else’s tent and pretend I know them…
‘Alright mate! Yeah! Sorry, I’m a bit drunk… great game we had earlier eh? You totally owned those noobs. Anyway, we should get some sleep, yeah.’
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I hope you know it is no fun without horizontal SLEET RAIN..
I feel for you, it has happened to me before. Bet your hair looks GREAT.
November 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmHaving slept in the car before… I think under the desk sounds like a much better plan! Did you lose your sleeping bag with the tent?
November 14th, 2009 at 10:20 pmI didn’t actually… but the other 3 did… and they now have bags full of wet clothing. (Again, my clothes are OK — so I’m just under a desk — oh, and no pillow…)
Hair looks great, for a given value of ‘great’…
November 14th, 2009 at 11:13 pmYou can always come home ya know!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:28 amAnd then people ask me why I don’t camp. Like really? I’m convinced I was born me in a modern age for a reason. I need an actual roof, a bed, with a down comforter, no less than 3 pillows, my book, my fabulous lamp from Ikea, and my stereo. Good luck- hopefully you survive the trip!
November 15th, 2009 at 1:19 am… and no little candles?
November 15th, 2009 at 1:43 amThat sucks dude. Hope you don’t catch a cold.
November 15th, 2009 at 4:04 amNah, my immune system is second to none… but my friend here is sneezing like some kind of elephant. It makes the floors reverberate.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI’m confused about the cousin comment. Did she call you a 1980’s sex machine. That could be sketchy.
Good luck with the lack of tent.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:34 pmMy cousin’s a boy.
But just because he’s a boy doesn’t make it any less sketchy, I’m afraid.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:35 pm